Given that E3 is next week, the lineup of new releases is rather yet, at the same time, surprisingly full. We'll be getting Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, Inversion, Dungeonbowl, Bang Bang Racing, and some other odds and ends.

Next week will bring Capcom's curious action-RPG Dragon's Dogma, WW2 sim Iron Front, which is built upon the Arma 2 engine, the PC edition of Alan Wake's American Nightmare, and the Xbox 360 and PS3 editions of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

Next week will bring the launch of Starhawk, the spiritual successor to Warhawk, along with the PC edition of Street Fighter X Tekken, the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft, fighter Phantom Breaker, and more.

Next week will bring our 2011 Game of the Year, The Witcher 2 to Xbox 360, and other new releases including Trials Evolution, Botanicula, and the PC editions of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP.

Quality wins over quantity in next week's lineup of new releases, with games including IGF 2012 Grand Prize winner Fez, pretty throwback dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock, Skullgirls, and the free-to-play Tribes: Ascend.

Though the first anniversary of 3DS's US launch isn't until March 27, Nintendo is already boasting about its first-year hardware sales. 4.5 million of the shiny handhelds were sold in the US alone, almost doubling the original DS's first year performance.

Next week will bring something very rare and special--a new PS2 game. Other new releases include Street Fighter X Tekken, I Am Alive, MLB 12: The Show, and something named Mass Effect 3--looks like some sort of sci-fi shooter-RPG to my eyes.